Sopwith Camel

The Sopwith Camel was a BritishWorld War I single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in France in 1917. Manufactured by Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a combination of a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. The Camel was credited with shooting down 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Entente fighter in the First World War.

The Sopwith Camel had been the most famous of all Entente fighters during the First World War. When the RaceinvadedEarth in mid 1942, the latest human-built fighters were often compared with their chances against the Sopwith Camel in comparison with their fighters chances against Race Killercraft.